Word: voting
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This time around, however, a new ingredient has been added to the pot of Cambridge politics: whether it will much change the flavor or the outcome remains to be seen. The new ingredient is rent control, which the council defeated this summer by a five to four vote while two hundred rent control backers sat in the chambers and fumed. Once outside the rent control advocates vowed to venge themselves in November on the "faithless five" -their term for the five councilors who voted against the rent control bill...
Four of the five councilor who voted against rent control are running again; they seem to feel that the issue-volatile though it may be-has not eroded their traditional bases of support. "The people who sit out there and yell at you to do something are never the ones who really vote for you anyway," says one of the four...
...reality of the campaign is that Hayes is trying for a Committee where two vacancies are opening up. Both were held by men who are now running for City Council. One was held by a black, Gus Solomons. Hayes is counting on a big black vote for him, for there are no other blacks running and Hayes has a good record in dealing with racial problems. Other minorities are for him too, including the Spanish-speaking people in Cambridge who seek a program for their children to learn Spanish and Latin American culture. This is one of the main planks...
...faces and names, he appeals to the ladies. One woman he met at a coffee the other night had taken care of him when he was a six-year-old playing in the tot lot. He had not seen her in 21 years, but he remembered her. She will vote for him. Ironically her number one vote for City Council will go to Mayor Walter Sullivan, a man worlds apart from Hayes politically...
...whole report could turn out to be a big fraud, though," Bower said last night. "Even if the trustees pass the resolutions, it's still possible that students will only be allowed to sit in on committee meetings and not be permitted voting rights. Relaxing the age restrictions doesn't mean the trustees have to vote in any younger members...